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Saturday, March 29, 2008

20080329 High resolution Sun

For high resolution, I mean the instrument only. But the sky is not cooperating, so the resolution is not really that high, at 1250mm effective focal length and the resolution with 5" aperture. C5/PST with my latest re-designed Cheapy-ERF mounting. Too bad that I found the sun was shifting west so I think it will be out of sight from inside my home.

1531 (GMT+8), AR987:-

1532 (GMT+8), AR988:-

1538 (GMT+8), AR989:-

1540 (GMT+8), a prominence:-

Finally, I have uploaded the video to see what the images looked like in real time: